Re: How to extract string from filename solved

You're right!  I totally missed that and I should know better.  I use that 
syntax without the "ls" all the time and I didn't even think about it. 
Maybe that's why it takes forever to run.  Fortunately I can put "&" at the 
end to run it in the background.  Of course I have thousands of files to 
process.

On 7/30/2015 6:11 AM, Tim Chase wrote:
> On July 30, 2015, Tony Baechler wrote:
>> #Since there are no spaces in the names, use for loop
>>
>> for i in $(ls *mp3);do
>
> For the record, this can be simplified to just
>
>    for i in *mp3 ; do
>
> -tim
>